[Homer_J_Simpson]

From Gen. Burnside’s Army: The Forward Movement Not Yet Commenced – 2
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 2
The War in the Southwest: Another Victory of Gen. Blunt – 2-3
Our Iron-Clad Navy: Completion of All the Nine Monitors – 3
Editorial: The Speech of Vice-President Stephens – 4
Editorial: Diplomatic Correspondence – 4
Editorial: The Hanging of 300 Indians – 4-5
Grenada Captured – Its Importance – 5
Manœuvering War Vessels – The Keokuk – 5-6
Campaign of the Mississippi—The Situation: Consequences of the Battle of Corinth – 6

[BroJoeK]

In recent days there've been two battles in Arkansas, one minor and inconclusive (Reeds Mountain), the other major and a Union victory, though outnumbered (Prarie Grove).

There was also a major battle in Hartville, Tennessee, December 7 -- an astonishing victory by outnumbered Confederates under cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan.

These bring the totals to 161 engagements so far, with 87 in Confederate states, 74 in Union states or territories.
Overall, Union victories only slightly outnumber Confederate victories, 71 to 68, with 22 inconclusive.

Arkansas 1862 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
Feb 17	Little Sugar Creek, AR	Union Army of the Southwest (Curtis ~2,000) & Confederate Army of AR (McCullough ~2,000)	Union 33-total (13-killed), Confederates 250-total (23-killed)	Inconclusive
Mar 6-8	Pea Ridge, AK	Union Army of Southwest (Curtis, Sigel ~10,500)& Confederate Army of the West (Van Dorn, Price, McCulloch, Pike ~16,500)	Union 1,384 total (203 killed), Confederate 2,000 total (unknown killed)	USA (Union outnumbered)
May 19	Whitney's Lane, AR	Union Dept of the SW (Curtis, Steele ~30,000), Confederate Trans-Mississippi (Roane ~1,200)	Union 51-total (unkwn-killed), Confederates 10-total (unkwn-killed)	USA
June 17	St. Charles, AR	Union 4-river boats, 46th Ind Inf (Fitch, Kitty-WIA ~1,000), Confederate AR 29th Inf (Fry-POW)	Union 160-total (58-killed), Confederates 40-total (8-killed)	USA
July 7	Cache River, AR	Union Army of SW (Curtis, Havey ~600, Confederate 12th & 16th Cavalry (Hindman, Rust ~600)	Union 63+-total (6-killed), Confederates ~100-total (30-killed)	USA
Nov 27	Yellville, AR	Union Army of the Frontier, (Wickersham, cavalry from Illinois, Iowa & Wisconsin ), Confederate garrison	Union none, Confederates 60-total captured & paroled	USA -- salt mining disrupted
Nov 28	Yellville, AR	Union Army of the Frontier, (Blunt, Cloud ~5,000), Confederate Trans-Mississippi Dept (Marmaduke, Shelby ~2,000)	Union 44-total (8-killed), Confederates 80-total (10-killed)	USA
Dec 6	Reed's Mountain, AR	Union Army of the Frontier, (Blunt, Basset 3 regiments), Confederate Trans-Mississippi Dept (Shelby's brigade, Monroe +2 regiments)	Union 8-total (1-killed), Confederates 37-total (10-killed)	Inconclusive -- USA tactical, CSA strategic
Dec 7	Prairie Grove, AR	Union Army of the Frontier, (Blunt, Herron ~9,000), Confederate Trans-Mississippi Dept (Hindman ~11,000)	Union 1,251-total (175-killed), Confederates 1,317-total (204-killed)	USA strategic (Union outnumbered)

Tennessee 1862 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
Feb 6	Fort Henry, TN	Union Army of TN + West Flotilla (Grant, Foote ~15,000) & Confederate Army of Cent KY (Tilghman ~3,200)	Union 40-total, Confederates 79-total (15 killed)	USA
Feb 14-16	Fort Donelson, TN	Union Army of the Tennessee + Mississippi River Squadron (Grant, Foote 24,531) & Confederate Army of Central KY + garrison (Floyd, Pillow, Buchner 16,171)	Union 2,691-total (507-killed), Confederates 13,846-total (327-killed)	USA
April 6-7	Shiloh, TN	Union Army of West Tennessee (Grant, Buell ~63,000) & Confederate Army of Mississippi (AS Johnson, Beauregard ~40,335)	Union 13,047-total (1,754-killed), Confederate 10,699-total (1,728-killed)	USA
April 14	Fort Pillowi, TN	Union mortor boats bombard Fort Pillow	none	CSA
May 10	Plum Run Bend, TN	Union MS River Squadron (7-river ironclads), Confederate River Defense Fleet (9-wooden steamboats)	none recorded	CSA
June 6	Memphis, TN	Union MS Flotilla (Davis, Ellet+), Confederate River Defense Fleet (Montgomery, Thompson)	Union 1- total, Confederates 250-total (~35-killed)	USA
June 7-8	Chattanooga, TN	Union Army of OH (Negley 1 division), Confederate Army of KY (EK Smith)	Union 23-total, Confederates 65-total	USA
July 13	Murfreesboro, TN	Union hospital & PA cavalry (Crittended ~900, Confederate Cavalry (Forrest ~1,400)	Union 890-total (0-killed), Confederates ~150-total (0-killed)	CSA
Aug 30	Bolivar, TN	Union Army of the MS, (Leggett ~1,000), Confederate Army of the West (Armstrong -1,000)	Union unknown, Confederates unknown	Inconclusive
Oct 5	Hatchie's Bridge, TN	Union Army of MS (Ord, Hurlbut, 12,000), Confederate Army of West TN (Van Dorn, Price ~20,000)	Union 500-total (75?-killed), Confederates 400-total (60?-killed)	USA
Dec 7	Hartville, TN	Union XIV Corps (Moore ~2,400), Confederate Cavalry (John Hunt Morgan ~1,300)	Union 2,096-total (unknwn-killed), Confederates 139-total (unkwn-killed)	CSA (CSA outnumbered, Union surrender)

Summary of Civil War Engagements as of December 8, 1862:
Engagements in Confederate states:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
South Carolina	2	2	1	5
Virginia	7	26	12	45
North Carolina	5	1	0	6
Florida	2	0	0	2
Louisiana	3	1	0	4
Tennessee	6	3	1	10
Arkansas	6	0	2	8
Georgia	1	0	0	1
Mississippi	3	1	0	4
Total Engagements in CSA	36	35	16	87

Engagements in Union states/territories:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
Maryland	3	0	1	4
West Virginia	9	3	2	14
Missouri	12	13	1	26
New Mexico	5	8	0	13
Kentucky	5	6	2	13
Oklahoma	1	3	0	4
Total Engagements in Union	35	33	6	74
Total Engagements to date	71	68	22	161

These three engagements bring total casualties to over 246,000 including over 29,000 killed in action.

[Hiddigeigei]

My maternal grandfather was a teenager during the Civil War. He lived in a house on the south side of the Potomac River a mile or so above Harpers Ferry. He wrote a 45 page family history that included his experiences during the war. The area was repeatedly occupied alternatively by both sides. In one case, a northern soldier fired across the river; the rifle bullet went through a front window of the house and hit a baby’s cradle on the back porch. He said he thought the soldier saw a flash of the sun on the window and thought he was being shot at. When working in the fields, if they heard a shot, they would run to get behind a tree because Maryland boys would shoot at them from across the river.

[BroJoeK]

"Editorial: The Speech of Vice-President Stephens – 4"

Our editors here refer to Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens -- of the "Cornerstone Speech" fame -- as "Aleck", first time I've seen that name.
Some people refer to Jefferson Davis as old Jeff Davis, but I doubt if anyone ever called him "Jeff" to his face... could be wrong about that.

Anyway, this is a great editorial, making arguments I've made on these threads many times, but also some I never thought to make, this one in particular:

"He ["Aleck"] pleads that it all comes from the wicked obstinacy of the North in refusing to abide by the principles of the Declaration of Independence, that "all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

With characteristic rebel willfulness the rebel Vice-President mutilates and perverts the doctrine of the Declaration.
What he quoted was only part of the sentence.
The very next clause qualifies it so as absolutely to make the passage dead against him -- its language being, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (i.e., life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,) it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
The very crime of the Confederacy is that they have undertaken to destroy a Government which was not destructive of these ends; in other words, that they rebelled without necessity.
The whole body of the Declaration is taken up with a recital of the "long train of abuses and usurpations" which could gain no redress, and which left no recourse but revolutionary resistance.

In the judgment of our fathers, it was not enough that they desired a new Government; they had to show that the old Government was an insufferable engine of oppression.
The Declaration upholds revolution only as an extreme resort.
Its whole tenor is a recognition that nothing short of virtual necessity can justify resistance to established authority.

The right of revolution is like the right of taking life.
There is such a right, but only in an extreme case.
Self-preservation alone confers it.
For ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS and his fellow-criminals to plead the example of our fathers as a justification of their acts, is as brazen as it would be for a wanton murderer to plead the example of a mad who had used the knife to save his life.
The murderer might as decently appeal to the code on justifiable homicide, as these rebels to the Declaration on justifiable revolution."

However, our editors were quite wrong in predicting:

"Though there were an Aleck Stephens at every crossroad in the Confederacy, they could not persuade the people to such extravagance of folly as he has urged them on to.
The rebel masses will be conquered into submission to the Constitution; and will live, if for nothing else, at least to teach their children to curse the day on which they ever gave themselves up to the revolutionary rule of DAVIS and STEPHENS."

Clearly our editors could not conceive of the magical rewritings of history as told by Edward Pollard and others in his "Lost Cause of the Confederacy -- a NEW Southern History of the War of the Confederates"